ATAN was a blunderer, an introducer of novità, who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattered.
Machiavelli, in George Eliot's Romola.
OU see the goodly hair that Galla wears;
'Tis certain her own hair: who would have thought it?
She swears it is her own, and true she swears,
For hard by Temple Bar last day she bought it.
Sir John Haryngton (1561-1612).
HE worst of human maladies are the most transient also—love that is half despairing, and seasickness that is quite so.
Leslie, in Mallock's New Republic.
ON A SMALL EATER.